Simple Storage for Oracle Database 10g and 11g

Oracle's launch of its Database 11g marks a major step forward in the relationship between Oracle databases and storage infrastructure. With 11g, Oracle has built Direct NFS (network file services) Client into Oracle, offering users the advantages of NAS for greater simplicity in deploying storage, easier storage management, lower cost, and superior scalability.

Attend this mediacast/podcast with Jeff Day of HP and Stan Gibson of SearchStorage.com to learn how to ease your management burdens while reducing storage expenditures. This webcast/podcast will explore how HP's Scalable NAS solution provides the following benefits for Oracle databases:

* Reduced cost and improved performance for your database
* Simple provisioning of storage for Oracle and Oracle RAC
* Superior value over traditional single-filer NAS and SAN products
* Tiered block and file storage in a single, easy-to-manage storage solution
* Integrated client-transparent NFS failover for robust high availability

Get this white paper at: payerhttp://searchoracle.bitpipe.com/data/document.do?res_id=1197907613_863

Testing Oracle 10g RAC Scalability

I have just found a good video on youtube about Oracle 10g RAC Scalability, This video is very informative. If you are considering of deploying Oracle RAC on your organization this is a cool one to watch. Below is the detail I grab from youtube video description:

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) offer businesses the ability to create an environment where more than one database server, or node, can be setup to manage an Oracle database. Organizations often face multiple challenges when implementing RAC and maintaining RAC configurations, including:

Determining how many database servers are needed for sustained optimal
performance in a cluster
Defining the proper testing methodology of a cluster configuration for load testing, scalability and availability
This Webcast will provide you with:

A proven methodology for determining the most optimal configuration for your Oracle RAC environment.
A real-world scenario in which Quest's solutions were leveraged for Oracle RAC to conduct diagnostic and benchmark tests on Oracle Real Application Clusters.

and the video is here you don't have to leave to youtube to watch it, just click on the play icon.

Video Title: Testing Oracle 10g RAC Scalability.
Time: 35.49 minutes.

Oracle RAC Test on VMWare Linux + openfiler SAN/NAS storage

For people who don't want to spend much money on SAN storage just for the purpose of testing Oracle RAC feature.
One of the option you can do is installing VMWare on your computer and set up 2 Linux virtual servers on it. You will also need another virtual server to set up as openfiler to act as SAN storage. The hardware requirement you need to have are 3 GB of memory, 50 GB of hard disk (excluding your host OS space).
For more information on how to do this you can drop in to http://www.oracledba.ca/ there are step by step + image guide for you.